Benzoic Acid

Benzoic Acid

SCHEMBL8653124

NCCC(=O)O.O=C(O)c1ccccc1

nearest known ligand 0.64

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Known targets — ChEMBL curated mechanism

CACNA1CCACNA1DCACNA1FCACNA1SDPP4HTR1BHTR1D

The experimentally established mechanism targets of Benzoic Acid. The predicted profile below is derived independently by chemical similarity — agreement is a validation signal, a miss is honest.

Predicted protein targets (top 20)

geneUniProtsupporting neighboursconfidence
TSHR P16473 3/20 0.64
DAO P14920 1/20 0.64
NAPRT Q6XQN6 1/20 0.64
NR4A2 P43354 1/20 0.56
CES1 P23141 3/20 0.54
CES2 O00748 2/20 0.54
SRD5A2 P31213 1/20 0.54
CYP2C19 P33261 2/20 0.50
ALDH1A1 P00352 2/20 0.50
HDAC3 O15379 2/20 0.50
HDAC4 P56524 2/20 0.50
HDAC1 Q13547 2/20 0.50
HDAC7 Q8WUI4 2/20 0.50
HDAC2 Q92769 2/20 0.50
HDAC10 Q969S8 2/20 0.50
HDAC11 Q96DB2 2/20 0.50
HDAC8 Q9BY41 2/20 0.50
HDAC6 Q9UBN7 2/20 0.50
HDAC9 Q9UKV0 2/20 0.50
HDAC5 Q9UQL6 2/20 0.50

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Similar compounds — the chemically nearest patent molecules

Nearest neighbours by Morgan-fingerprint cosine across the patent-compound collection, with each neighbour's top predicted target and the predicted targets it shares with this molecule.

Compoundsimilaritytop predictedshared targets
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL10952729 0.88 TSHR (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL30599484 0.88 TSHR (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL11767340 0.88 TSHR (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL3311083 0.88 TSHR (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTNR4A2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL15485652 0.86 NR4A2 (0.74) TSHRDAONAPRTNR4A2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL11455168 0.86 TSHR (0.70) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL1573399 0.86 TSHR (0.70) TSHRDAONAPRTNR4A2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL27206572 0.86 TSHR (0.70) TSHRDAONAPRTNR4A2CES1
Benzoic Acid SCHEMBL31376992 0.85 TSHR (0.78) TSHRDAONAPRTCES1CES2
Adipic Acid SCHEMBL7202698 0.84 HDAC3 (0.69) TSHRDAONAPRTNR4A2CES1

Similarity is cosine over the 2,048-bit Morgan fingerprint (≈ Tanimoto). Identical fingerprints score 1.00.

Patent provenance — the patents this molecule appears in, and who filed them

Claimed or disclosed in 4 patents. claimed = in the patent's claims; disclosed = body only.

PatentTitleAssigneePublishedPriorityFilingCountryStatus
US-5710012-A DETECTION OF CHOLESTEROL BY RELEASE OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ACTIMED LABORATORIES, INC. (US) 1998-01-20 US claimed
US-20250152533-A1 Novel Beta-Alanine Compositions and Methods of Use Thereof LEGACY CORPORATE LENDING, LLC, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT 2025-05-15 US disclosed
US-5710012-A DETECTION OF CHOLESTEROL BY RELEASE OF HYDROGEN PEROXIDE ACTIMED LABORATORIES, INC. (US) 1998-01-20 US disclosed
US-5518891-A SUBSTITUTED ANILINES, HYDRAZONES OR 4-AMINOANTIPYRINES ACTIMED LABORATORIES, INC. (US) 1996-05-21 US disclosed

Patent text — is the patent's own abstract consistent with the prediction?

For each of this compound's patents that has machine-readable text (1 of them — usually the abstract, not the full specification), we ask MedCPT which protein the text reads most about, and where the chemistry-predicted target lands among 4885 human targets. A high rank means the patent's own wording is consistent with the prediction — a weak, independent signal, not proof of activity.

PatentTitleText reads most aboutPredicted target · text-rank
US-20250152533-A1 Novel Beta-Alanine Compositions and Methods of Use Thereof GYS1, PYGM, AADAT TSHR 4665/4885DAO 98/4885NAPRT 2430/4885

“Text reads most about” is the patent abstract's nearest protein in MedCPT space (background-debiased). Only ~1.4% of patents have machine-readable text, so most compounds won't have this panel.